Prince Harry

On September 6, 1997, Prince Harry, twelve years old, walked behind his mother's coffin through the streets of London as millions watched. Diana, Princess of Wales, had been killed in a car crash in Paris a week earlier while being pursued by photographers. Harry has said that he spent much of the next two decades refusing to deal with that grief, and that it shaped almost everything about his relationship with the press.

He was born Henry Charles Albert David on September 15, 1984, at St Mary's Hospital in London, at 4:20 in the afternoon, a time announced by the palace. His Sun is in Virgo, with Mercury in Virgo and Venus in Libra, all three in the eighth house, the area of loss, death, inheritance and what is hidden. The eighth house describes experiences that transform a person at a deep level. For Harry, it is hard to ignore the connection to the defining loss of his childhood, and to his lifelong battles over private information, inheritance and the institution he was born into.

His Moon is in Taurus in the fourth house, which concerns home, the mother and emotional roots. A Taurus Moon seeks stability, comfort and security, and in the fourth house it ties emotional life to home and to the mother. Harry has described his search for a stable home as a central theme of his life.

Capricorn is his rising sign, the sign of tradition, duty and institutions, and Jupiter in Capricorn sits in his twelfth house. Capricorn rising describes someone born into structure and expectation, and the twelfth house suggests struggles that take place behind the scenes.

Mars and Uranus, in Sagittarius, fall in his eleventh house of groups, comradeship and causes. Harry trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and served two tours in Afghanistan, the second as an Apache helicopter co-pilot gunner. He has said the army was where he felt most like himself. In 2014 he founded the Invictus Games, an international sporting event for wounded and injured service members and veterans.

Saturn and Pluto, in Scorpio, sit in his ninth house of foreign lands and wider horizons. Scorpio is intense and transformative, and the ninth house concerns life abroad. In 2018 he married Meghan Markle, and in 2020 the couple stepped back from royal duties and moved to California, where they live with their two children.

His 2023 memoir, Spare, became one of the fastest-selling nonfiction books ever published. He has pursued several lawsuits against British newspapers over phone hacking and privacy, winning a judgment against the publisher of the Daily Mirror. The Virgo planets in his eighth house carried his loss; the Taurus Moon in the fourth kept him searching for a home.